Family Theater: The Cobbler's Window

Family Theater presents Pat O'Brien and Victor Jory. Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater, presents Victor Jory and Leo Tolstoy's The Cobbler's Window. To introduce the drama, your host and narrator, Pat O'Brien.

And created two greater memorials to himself as did Count Leo Tolstoy in the monumental war and peace, and Anna Karenina. The so large do these works, Loom and Tolstoy's name, that too often we forget the short stories, which rank him as one of history's most prolific literary greats.

And perhaps it is because his more famed works deal with life in the Russian courts, that tall stories own mode of life is often overlooked. For never was there a count who lived more simply and with more self-denial than he?

He gave up, then gladly, the privileges of rank and wealth has brought the court at him and developed his sense of life in social service. And that sense of doing for others is the hallmark of his short stories. Now mirroring this feeling of tall stories, the story we've selected for presentation now. It is with pleasure that we bring you Victor Jory as Martin, the little

shoemaker in the cobblies window, from tall stories where love is, their God is also. And And so the story begins. In the village lived the Shoemaker Marten. He lived in a basement in a cramp little room with one window.

And through that window he watched the people who passed by each day. No, it was not really the people he watched. Or only their feet could be seen as they hurried by his basement window.

But by their boots, Marten the Shoemaker would recognize it. There were the high shiny boots of the young lieutenant, Stepping boldly along with a bright scarlet tassels bobbing. The sensible, heavy black boats of the town mare treading with measured self-satisfaction.